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What DPR was commenting on were probably Indian ponies which tend to be somewhat smaller than thoroughbred horses. Still horses though, not ponies like would be used for children. Nice pic, nice horse.

Little flower

Here is one of the cutest little flowers I have seen. These little guys come up every spring and only last for a few weeks. They are about 1/4" across. Hard to get the entire flower in focus they are so small.

It seems a little soft to my eyes and I've sharpened the crap out of my test shots. I may have went overboard with this one though.

Looks fine to me except I think the focus point is slightly behind the bike (look at the blades of grass above and to the right of the back wheel -- they're perfectly sharp, whereas the tyre isn't). It could be that the body/lens combination is resulting in back-focussing.

I had the same problem with the 16-85VR I bought second-hand after trying out DPR's lens on my D7000. I was slightly disappointed with the lens I bought, as the images seemed a bit soft compared to the needle-sharp ones I got from DPR's lens. I did some test shots using a focus test chart, and discovered the lens was back-focussing slightly. This is easily fixable on the D7000 by using the menu to dial in the required adjustment. I eventually settled on a figure of -10 to bring the focus point towards the camera slightly. Images look a lot better to me now. The photo below is of my daughter-in-law and grandchild, and was taken at some distance away through a plate glass window. The focus plane looks just about spot-on, whereas before it would have been the railing which would have been the main thing in focus, and not the central subject. I don't know if the D300 can be adjusted in this way, but it's certainly worth giving it a shot.

The controls aren't a whole big bunch different than my old D200, so its like being at home. But the focus points!

Sir Les,

I'll do some digging through the manual and see if there is some kind of adjustment. I noticed some back-focusing on some of my other shots, but then I though maybe it was just me. And it could definitely be me, as shots with both my Tamron 28-75 and my Nikon 50 are soft.